Retired linguist/law/IT. Avid reader in all languages (see polyglot.city/@FrankauLux/ ), both paper and ebooks. Mostly fictions these days.
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After celebrating their first anniversary, William Smithback, a reporter for The New York Times, and …
Still going strong. Very nice twists and turns and an unexpected ending. Recommended. It doesn't matter if you haven't read any of the previous.
Still going strong. Very nice twists and turns and an unexpected ending. Recommended. It doesn't matter if you haven't read any of the previous.
FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a …
Excellent. Pendergast is apparently getting better in each episode. Can hardly wait for the next one. (You need to accept a certain number of things, of course, like all fictionnal world :-) )
An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not …
The story has come full circle and ends (almosts) as it started. All will be revealed...
Two brothers. One, top FBI Agent, Aloysius Pendergast. The other, Diogenes, a brilliant and twisted …
The tempo is still beating the way it should be. Again a lot of previous caracters and places cross their way in the book, which is left unfinished - no other possibility than to read the next one :-)
Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. …
Very good. The series is getting nice. Still some shortcuts, but enjoyable. Loads of cross-references as well, so it does help to have read the previous episodes, even if it is not strictly necessary. Bit of a cliffhanger this one :-)
Agent Pendergast visits Medicine Creek, Kansas after a gruesome murder occurs. With the help of …
Finally, Pendergast as it should be :-) Glad to report my fears after the previous installments of the series were not founded. It is now going in a much better direction.
In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are …
Mmmm. Third book in the saga, my comment to the previous still stand: quite verbose, a bit too much for my taste. Also some recurring gimmicks are starting to appear. This is most unfortunate, because the twists and turns I like so much are still there. I'll try the next one in the saga. See if the trend is confirmed. Still worth reading tho.
Mmmm. Third book in the saga, my comment to the previous still stand: quite verbose, a bit too much for my taste. Also some recurring gimmicks are starting to appear. This is most unfortunate, because the twists and turns I like so much are still there. I'll try the next one in the saga. See if the trend is confirmed. Still worth reading tho.
Nice. Still a bit verbose - too many flashback to previous book for my taste, but nice twists and turns.
A bit verbose for my taste, but nice mystery... Now on to volume two to see the end of the story...
As expected - many twists and turns. Again, if you like mysteries / thrillers, this is for you. Available on Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71073. Enjoy !
As usual, most excellent S. King. Almost missed my plane with that one. Was so deep in the book I forgot where I was. A dozen of short stories, some very short, some longer. Most excellent, but then I'm probably biased. definitely recommended
As usual, most excellent S. King. Almost missed my plane with that one. Was so deep in the book I forgot where I was. A dozen of short stories, some very short, some longer. Most excellent, but then I'm probably biased. definitely recommended
Inspector French # 4
Off the coast of Burry Port in south Wales, two …
Again, most excellent mystery with twist and turns. Also available from Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72771 Recommended !!!
> In a country hotel Maxwell Cheyne sits down to lunch with the pleasant stranger …
Quite different from the previous one, but stil a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside of a puzzle. Also recommended, also available on Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72986
> THE FIRST INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERY
>At the offices of the Hatton Garden diamond …
This is a real discovery !!! I found the epub on an old ereader that I received. Never heard about the author, but I like whodunnit and mystery cases, so I thought I might as well go ahead and read it. Fascinating. Really well done, with twists and plot turns all over. Obviously old (five and twenty, really ? :-), but still good. You can find it here: gutenberg.org/ebooks/65553 and I found 3 more by the same author, which I'm downloading as I speak. Recommended.
This is a real discovery !!! I found the epub on an old ereader that I received. Never heard about the author, but I like whodunnit and mystery cases, so I thought I might as well go ahead and read it. Fascinating. Really well done, with twists and plot turns all over. Obviously old (five and twenty, really ? :-), but still good. You can find it here: gutenberg.org/ebooks/65553 and I found 3 more by the same author, which I'm downloading as I speak. Recommended.
Doctor Ponnonner invites the narrator to his home to take part in a mummy unwrapping. …
Very funny (and short) not usual Poe but nice